Oh My God
Morby's spare, remorseful fifth solo album evokes the world-weariness of gospel-phase Dylan.
The American songwriter questions it all on his divine and astonishing fifth album, 'Oh My God'. Get the NME verdict
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Dylan and other seekers pop up as influences on a spiritually minded album by Kevin Morby.
On the four albums leading up to Oh My God, singer/songwriter Kevin Morby channeled some of rock & roll's greatest heroes, calling on various phases of Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and others with rootsy tunes that breathed with restless longing.
Oh My God is a record that rarely falls short of a creative arrangement, but ultimately the gospel of Morby is one for the devotees not the unbelievers.
It takes seconds for Kevin Morby to set the mood for Oh My God: piano roll, hushed melody and harmonized chorus, the sum of which induces a...
Although he doesn't consider himself necessarily "religious," Kevin Morby has noticed the general devotional theme running through his music.
‘Oh My God’ is an album of contradictions that sit comfortably with one another. A non-religious gospel record, Kevin Morby takes us on an
Kevin Morby's epic new album (his fifth, remarkably) is, by his own admission (if not confession) a